Political events of 1917 in Russia (1917)

Trucks and armored cars with revolutionary soldiers on the streets of Petrograd in February 1917. The crew of an armored car takes their places in the vehicle.

Soldiers of a flying detachment in an armored car before leaving to suppress a machine-gun nest on the roof of one of the houses.

Damage to the engine and radiator of an armored car that came under machine-gun fire on Bolshaya Morskaya Street; a mechanic inspects the damage.

Soldiers with rifles in an armored car.

Revolutionary troops and armed workers on the streets of Petrograd.

One of the regiments of the Petrograd garrison that went over to the side of the revolution passes along the street.

The text of the Manifesto on the abdication of Nicholas II. Fortress guns in the courtyard of the bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Guns on the crownwork of the fortress (panorama).

Military delegates of the 1st All-Russian Congress of Soviets greet the arriving general.

Officers at the entrance to the State Duma in March 1917. Military brass band on the streets of Petrograd.

Parade of the revolutionary troops of the Petrograd garrison.

Faces of the ministers of the Provisional Government and deputies of the Petrograd Soviet, among them the Minister of Finance Tereshchenko M.I. Congress delegates in front of the entrance to the building of the First Cadet Corps.

Arrival of the ministers of the first Provisional Government for the meeting.

Prince Kropotkin with his wife in front of the entrance to the building of the First Cadet Corps in June 1917. A car leaving the Tauride Palace.

Foreign Minister Milyukov P.N. in a carriage.

Participants in the meeting smoke in front of the entrance to the building.

Minister of Railways Nekrasov N.V. among the delegates of the Congress of Soviets.

Faces of the delegates of the 1st Congress of Soviets (panorama).

Congress delegates from various parties before the start of the meeting.

Faces of the military delegates.

Meeting and seeing off participants of meetings at the Tauride Palace, getting in and out of cars.

Soldiers' demonstration under the slogans of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

Participants of the demonstration on one of the squares of Petrograd, festively decorated trucks drive by.

Members of the soldiers' section of the Petrograd Soviet at the entrance to the building, faces of the soldiers' deputies.

Panorama of part of the wall of the building.

People on the streets of Petrograd gather for another demonstration (panorama), cabbies and cyclists drive by.

Views and panoramas of the streets and buildings of Petrograd in the spring of 1917, broken glass in the windows.

People read announcements pasted on the walls of houses.

Texts of handwritten announcements about the dismissal of workers and employees.

Demonstration in Petrograd in March 1917, columns of demonstrators are moving.

View of one of the soldiers' rallies, participants in the rally wave their hats.

Artists of the Moscow Circus on May 1, 1917 in Moscow near a model of a coffin symbolizing autocracy, an elephant with a poster on its side takes a red flag with its trunk.

Panorama of one of the rallies in Moscow.

Demonstration moves along one of the streets of Moscow in March-April 1917, participants in the demonstration carry slogans in support of the proclamation of the republic.

Faces of rally participants near the walls of the Moscow Kremlin.

Participants in the rally on Okhotny Ryad.

Demonstration in Moscow under the slogan of convening the Constituent Assembly.

Views of the columns of the demonstration moving along Manezhnaya Square past the buildings of the Historical Museum and the Moscow City Duma (above).

Panorama of the square in front of the Moscow City Duma building during a rally and demonstration in March 1917 (top).

Moscow firefighters at one of the rallies.

Faces of rally participants in front of the Iversky Gate.

Distribution of leaflets on one of the streets of Moscow in February 1917. View of a demonstration on one of the streets of Moscow.

A column of workers from the Vtorov plant passes by.

Banners with slogans above the columns of the demonstration.

The movement of the columns of the demonstration along Tverskaya Street.

The movement of the demonstration along Strastnaya Square past the monument to A.S. Pushkin.

Participants in the demonstrations of March 1917 on the streets of Moscow.

Arrival of a cavalry unit at the rally.

Rallies on the streets of Moscow in March 1917, faces of the participants in the rallies.

Panorama of the rally in front of the building of the Moscow City Duma.

Circus dwarf performers dressed as Minister Protopopov and Rasputin at a May Day rally, with trainer V.L. Durov next to them.

Performers from Durov's Circus at a May Day rally, an elephant with a slogan on its side.

Revolutionary soldiers escort arrested police agents.

Faces of those arrested (panorama).

An arrested police official stands by a car guarded by Red Guards.

Unloading sacks of flour on a Moscow street.

Students and soldiers who have enlisted in the police stand with rifles at the entrance to the 1st Prechistensky precinct.

Student sentries changing their guard.

Revolutionary soldiers at Butyrka prison.

Views of demonstrations in Moscow in March-April 1917. One of the columns of a soldier's demonstration is moving.

Soldiers in the frontline zone welcome the tsar's abdication, faces of participants in soldier rallies.

Soldiers hold a banner with a slogan in support of the proclamation of the republic and war to a victorious end.

Panorama of part of one of the soldiers' rallies in the frontline zone.

Revolutionary soldiers and students who enlisted in the police near the Moscow City Duma in March 1917 (panorama).

View of the demonstration near the buildings of the Historical Museum and the Moscow City Duma (top).

Faces of participants in one of the rallies.

Arrested police agents on Manezhnaya Square under the protection of revolutionary soldiers.

The movement of columns of the demonstration along the streets of Moscow.

People going to the rally.

Revolutionary soldiers stand in a cordon at the entrance to Butyrka prison.

People near an armored car on one of the streets of Moscow in February-March 1917. Participants in the demonstration with a banner with the slogan of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

A truck with revolutionary soldiers on one of the streets of Moscow.

A column of the demonstration on one of the Moscow streets, a truck with a red cross passes by.

A cab driver and passers-by at the entrance to Filippov's bakery.

A queue to the bakery, people pass by.

A demonstration moves along one of the streets of Moscow, banners with various slogans above the columns of demonstrators (above).

Leaflets are being thrown from a truck.

Faces of the participants in the rallies, behind them a continuous column of demonstrations is moving.

Photograph of the May Day demonstration of 1917 in Petrograd.

Panorama of part of the May Day rally on the Field of Mars.

A military brass band is playing.

Panorama of the rally.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government Milyukov P.N. leaves the building.

Demonstration under slogans calling for peace.

Faces of deputies of the Petrograd Soviet, among them - Chkheidze N.S. Speech of US President W. Wilson in Congress.

American soldiers march through the streets of New York.

Soldiers carry American flags.

Views of New York streets during the passage of soldiers of the expeditionary force leaving for Europe.

Falling bombs.

Part of a burning building.

Episodes of air battles of World War I. The fall of a shot down airplane, explosion.

The burning fragment of an airplane.

The body of a dead pilot.

The falling of a burning airship.

The arrival in Russia of the French minister Albert Thomas.

Representatives of the Entente countries and the United States walk across Palace Square in the summer of 1917. Parade on Red Square.

Personnel of the Moscow Women's Shock Battalion on Red Square before being sent to the front on June 26, 1917. Presentation of an icon to the Women's Shock Battalion.

Soldiers in the frontline zone welcome the abdication of the Tsar.

Jubilant soldiers at a rally in the frontline zone (panorama).

Soldiers hold a banner with a slogan in support of the war to a victorious end.

View of a demonstration in July 1917 in Petrograd.

Demonstration slogans published in the Bolshevik press.

Fragments from the film "October".

Photographs of Cossacks and soldiers of the 5th Army, summoned to Petrograd to restore order in July 1917. Shooting of the July demonstration in Petrograd (fragment of the film "October").

Military parade on May 1, 1917 on Palace Square.

Faces of officers.

Soldiers of the 5th Army march along Palace Square in July 1917. Face of A.F. Kerensky.

Photograph of cadets after the destruction of the editorial office of the newspaper "Pravda" in July 1917. Troops on the streets of Petrograd.

Fraternization of soldiers of Russian and German units at the front in February 1917. Soldiers exchange headdresses.

Soldiers' rally at the front.

Ministers of the first Provisional Government - Minister of Justice Kerensky A.F., Minister of Foreign Affairs Milyukov P.N., Minister of Railways Nekrasov N.V., Minister of Finance Tereshchenko M.I., Minister of Education Manuilov A.A. A woman works in a workshop of a military plant.

Bandaging a wounded man in a hospital.

Panorama of a meeting of war invalids.

Meeting of foreign military attachés with ministers of the Provisional Government in the summer of 1917. Minister of Trade and Industry Konovalov A.I. during an event to agitate for signatures on the "Freedom Loan" in May 1917. Deserter soldiers leave the front on a railway platform.

Panorama of a part of an abandoned position.

Parade of revolutionary troops on Red Square in early March 1917. Demonstration on Red Square in support of the speedy convocation of the Constituent Assembly.

A demonstration column marches along Red Square, a military brass band walks in front, faces of the demonstrators passing by.

The demonstration column moves past the Moscow City Duma building.

Arrested police spies walk under the escort of soldiers and Red Guards.

Soldiers and student police officers in front of the entrance to the Moscow City Duma building.

View of part of Red Square during a demonstration.

View of part of the moving demonstration (from above).

Faces of soldiers and Red Guards.

Views of Moscow streets during rallies and demonstrations in March 1917. Crowds of people on the streets of Moscow in the February days of 1917. The movement of the demonstration along the streets of Moscow.

Panorama of part of a Moscow street filled with people.

A view of a Moscow street in the February days of 1917, people on the sidewalks, revolutionary troops marching along the roadway.

People on the streets of Moscow in the February days of 1917. Soldiers in a cordon at the gates of Butyrka prison.

Revolutionary soldiers near an armored car on one of the Moscow streets, the armored car starts moving, a passenger car drives past.

Soldiers on one of the streets of Moscow hold a banner with the slogan of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, the faces of rally participants waving their hands and hats at the camera lens.

A student jumps on the running board of a truck with soldiers stopped on the street.

A column of demonstrators on one of the Moscow streets.

A truck with a red cross on its side drives along the street, followed by a column of demonstrators.

A cab driver stands at the entrance to Filippov's bakery, people walk past.

Queue at the bakery.

Types of demonstration in Moscow in the summer of 1917. Participants in the demonstration in February-March 1917 carry banners with slogans.

Soldiers and representatives of the Zemstvo Union of Cities at the entrance to the Moscow City Duma building, where the Committee for the Production of Gifts for the Active Army is located, arrested police agents guarded by soldiers (panorama).

A panoramic view of part of Nevsky Prospect near the City Council building during the women's demonstration on March 19, 1917. A banner with a slogan for women's voting rights, faces of demonstrators, a woman giving a speech while standing in a car.

A column of members of the "Russian League for Women's Equality" passes along Nevsky Prospect.

Two female riders ride at the head of the column, banners with slogans in defense of women's rights and granting them voting rights.

The movement of columns of women's organizations along Nevsky Prospect.

A column of female demonstration participants on Nevsky Prospect with slogans for equal rights for women.

Faces of demonstration participants, banners with slogans in the hands of women.

The movement of the women's demonstration along Nevsky Prospect, activists give speeches from a car moving in the column.

Slogans for the proclamation of a republic above one of the columns of the women's demonstration, a view of part of Nevsky Prospect during the demonstration.

Views of armed soldiers' demonstration in Petrograd in support of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

A column of the reserve battalion of the Kexholm Regiment passes.

The movement of the soldiers' demonstration.

Armored cars at the Tauride Palace on the day of the opening of the first meeting of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies on March 2, 1917 (panorama).

Soldiers of armored divisions at a demonstration in support of the Petrograd Soviet.

Views of the soldiers' demonstration at the Tauride Palace, banners with slogans in the hands of soldiers.

Deputies of the Petrograd Soviet at the Tauride Palace.

Views of the streets of Petrograd adjacent to the Tauride Palace during the soldiers' demonstration.

The movement of the demonstration columns.

Armored cars in the demonstration columns, driving away from the Tauride Palace, the participants of the demonstration close up and follow the armored cars.

People on Theatre Square in Moscow on the day the State Conference began on August 12, 1917; soldiers stand in a cordon (panorama).

People on Theatre Square on the day the State Conference began in Moscow on August 12, 1917 (panorama), one of the conference participants gets out of a car and heads to the entrance to the Bolshoi Theatre.

Checking the passes of conference participants at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theatre.

Demonstration of servicemen in support of continuing the war.

Faces of armed deserters.

Milyukov P.N. among the participants of the State Conference before the start of the first session.

Steam escapes from the factory whistle.

Striking workers leave the factory.

Photograph of Red Guards armed with rifles in October 1917. Speakers delivering speeches at rallies.

Participants of the State Conference on August 12, 1917 enter the doors of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Participants of the State Conference on August 12, 1917, enter the doors of the Bolshoi Theater, showing their passes to the soldiers standing at the entrance.

Panorama of part of Theater Square in front of the Metropol Hotel, on the opening day of the State Conference on August 12, 1917. Participants of the State Conference at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.

Kerensky A.F. arrives at the Bolshoi Theater for a meeting of the State Conference, Kerensky goes inside accompanied by adjutants.

Participants of the State Conference go to the first meeting.

Representatives of the Social Democratic and Socialist Parties at the building of the Bolshoi Theater before the start of the State Conference.

Chkheidze N.S. among the participants of the conference, faces of the participants of the conference (panorama).

Deputies of the State Duma of previous convocations at the building of the Bolshoi Theater before the start of the meeting, among them - Milyukov P.N. Representatives of the Entente countries, invited to the meeting, enter the Bolshoi Theater.

Panorama of part of the Theatre Square and the Metropol Hotel building on the opening day of the State Conference on August 12, 1917, soldiers on the square.

Demonstration on the Field of Mars on the day of the funeral of the victims of the February Revolution on March 23, 1917.

Panorama of the rally in Petrograd in April 1917. A truck with a slogan of the Socialist Revolutionary Party at the May Day demonstration of 1917. Views of May Day rallies on the Field of Mars.

A car passes the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow on May 1, 1917. A truck with soldiers on one of the Moscow streets (top).

Panorama of part of the soldiers' rally.

Pozern B.P. speaks at a meeting of the 1st All-Russian Congress of Soviets in June 1917 in Petrograd.

Registration of mandates of congress delegates at the entrance to the First Cadet Corps, panorama of the queue at the registration table.

Delegates sign and receive the program of the congress.

View of part of the city duma building in Petrograd, the clock tower.

Deputies stand on the steps of the porch, go down.

Participants in the May Day demonstration in Petrograd in a parked car.

Panorama of Palace Square, a truck with banners drives through the square.

View of part of Nevsky Prospect during the May Day demonstration.

Demonstrators in a car drive past the entrance to the Tauride Palace.

Rallies and demonstrations on the streets of Petrograd in 1917.

Delegates to the 1st All-Russian Congress of Soviets listen to a speaker in the garden of the First Cadet Corps in Petrograd in June 1917 (panorama).

Pozern B.P. speaks to delegates, delegates applaud.

A sailor representing the Baltic Fleet speaks, one of the delegates asks him a question.

Delegates listen to a representative of the RSDLP, who is sitting and reading out the faction’s work program at the congress (panorama).

A demonstration of military personnel in Petrograd under the slogans of war to a victorious end and support for the Provisional Government.

Columns of naval sailors and cavalry units pass, followed by an infantry column.

Panorama and view of part of Nevsky Prospect during the demonstration.

Panorama of one of the rallies on the Field of Mars.

Views of the demonstration on Nevsky Prospect in the summer of 1917. The movement of columns of soldiers’ demonstration in support of the Provisional Government.

A view of one of the columns of the demonstration, with cabbies driving alongside.

Views of a soldier's demonstration in Petrograd with slogans about trust in the Provisional Government.

Panorama of part of Nevsky Prospect during the demonstration.

A group of deputies of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

Panorama of part of the rally at the Kazan Cathedral, a speaker speaking.

Panorama of one of the soldiers' rallies in February 1917. Meeting of soldiers' deputies.

Participants in the rally in Moscow welcome the news of Nicholas II's abdication (panorama).

Soldiers climb into the back of a truck.

Trucks with soldiers in the back.

A speaker delivering a speech at one of the soldiers' rallies.

Disabled soldiers walking to the Moscow City Duma building.

View of the rally near the Historical Museum building, a truck leaving the Iversky Gate (above), view of the Iversky Chapel and part of the Moscow City Duma building.